New Startup Ideas Spreadsheet

#1

Post by jcs » Sun, Mar 14, 2010, 5:53 PM UTC

To follow on from cdixon's recent submission (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1190710), I suggest we put into practice the "opposite of secret" theory.

Feel free to add your own ideas and leave feedback on the others. Also if you see something that interests you, get in contact and make it happen!

New Startup Ideas Spreadsheet
spreadsheets.google.com

Re: New Startup Ideas Spreadsheet

#2

Post by jcs » Sun, Mar 14, 2010, 6:32 PM UTC

Inspired by the recent submission from cdixon (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1190710) regarding developing new startup ideas and being the "opposite of secret", I thought we could put the theory into practice.

Feel free to add your own ideas and leave feedback on the others. If you see something you like, get in contact and make it happen!

Re: New Startup Ideas Spreadsheet

#3

Post by nc » Sun, Mar 14, 2010, 6:34 PM UTC

Crowdsourced startups anyone? ;)

Re: New Startup Ideas Spreadsheet

#4

Post by coryl » Sun, Mar 14, 2010, 6:41 PM UTC

Participated :D

Re: New Startup Ideas Spreadsheet

#5

Post by mtrimpe » Sun, Mar 14, 2010, 6:50 PM UTC

Whao ... sharing a Google Doc with that many people is a really interesting experience ;)

Re: New Startup Ideas Spreadsheet

#6

Post by dbz » Sun, Mar 14, 2010, 6:52 PM UTC

I'm not going to lie. I literally said "Awww, Coool!" Then looked around to see if anyone noticed because I felt like my inner child surfaced a bit too much.

Re: New Startup Ideas Spreadsheet

#7

Post by jayair » Sun, Mar 14, 2010, 7:00 PM UTC

I would be really like to see the HN community do a project collectively. Come up with the idea, design, develop and launch it.

It probably sounds more fun than it is going to be. But it should be cool.

Re: New Startup Ideas Spreadsheet

#8

Post by wallop » Sun, Mar 14, 2010, 7:14 PM UTC

Imagine it's 1998. Google doesn't exist yet. Would Larry Page and Sergey Brin have added their big idea to this spreadsheet? My argument is that if you have any idea that's worthwhile, you're not going to publicize it. It might make sense to get feedback from a few friends. But you don't want potentially dozens of other people trying to execute it before you have had a chance to. Brin and Page are good examples of the fact that ideas in themselves can be extremely valuable and are worth guarding.

Re: New Startup Ideas Spreadsheet

#9

Post by maxklein » Sun, Mar 14, 2010, 7:14 PM UTC

jayair wrote: post #7

I would be really like to see the HN community do a project collectively. Come up with the idea, design, develop and launch it. It probably sounds more fun than it is going to be. But it should be cool.

The problem is that whoever owns the domain or the password to the repository owns the project.

Re: New Startup Ideas Spreadsheet

#10

Post by jrockway » Sun, Mar 14, 2010, 7:17 PM UTC

wallop wrote: post #8

Imagine it's 1998. Google doesn't exist yet. Would Larry Page and Sergey Brin have added their big idea to this spreadsheet? My argument is that if you have any idea that's worthwhile, you're not going to publicize it. It might make sense to get feedback from a few friends. But you don't want potentially dozens of other people trying to execute it before you have had a chance to. Brin and Page are good examples of th…

There were plenty of search engines in 1998. Larry and Sergey's implementation just happened to be much better.